I was diagnosed with ADHD and started on medication at 12, but not really told anything about what it meant for me or how to deal with it, and when I was 18 -literally when my parents dropped me off at college- was told I was autistic
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Huh, TIL I guess
They used 'high functioning'? PSA for anyone who doesn't know, try to use High/low Need not high/low function
Yeah that was the exact language the doctor used. Hadn't heard 'need' before but that definitely sounds better, thanks for the info.
yeah no prob, I only learned about it myself like 6 months ago. It's absurd how little they care to know and to teach us
it doesn't absolve the field, but it's not exactly psychiatry's fault that it doesn't know how to teach us anything about our brains